Vibrant Egg Dye

We created our own egg dye this year and used My World – Made By Hand’s Vibrant Egg Dye Recipe.

I used liquid food coloring gels instead of the Wilton food coloring. (I have them readily available at the bakery.)

Crayon Resist

When the eggs first came out of the boiling water, Henry started drawing on them with crayons. (Inspired by both Red Ted Art and Salsa in China.)

I chose to use Crayola crayons because I’ve heard that they work the best. The crayons melted so nicely – it was like writing with marker.
After drawing on them and letting them dry and cool, I tried dipping some in the egg dye.

(Henry really wanted to keep most of his white.)

The way the dye resisted the crayon wax amazed me. It wouldn’t go near the wax, not even close.

Which left for some pretty neat patterns!

Marbled Eggs

Since Mom’s Crafty Space’s marbled eggs used acrylic paint and wooden eggs, we just used our food coloring gels to get the marble effect.

We placed a couple drops of food coloring in coordinating colors on a paper plate.

Placed an egg on it and slid it around the table, tipping it slightly to cover it as much as possible.

(Henry picked it up and shook it many times!)

After these dried a little (though the straight food coloring gel takes forever to dry), we dipped some quickly in the Vibrant Egg Dye to cover it completely.

Love those ideas. I remember doing marbled eggs growing up and still do them today with my kids. My mother would always prepare the dye by adding food coloring and vinegar and we would dye some the traditional way and then she would add a tablespoon of vegetable oil to the water and we would spin our eggs into the water. Voila, marbled eggs :) the oil would stick to some of the shell and not allow the dye to color it. We would wipe them off with paper towels and put them in another color too…they always turned out so nice. They didn’t take any longer to dry than the traditional dyed eggs.

Jamie, These egg crafts are simply darling:) I have to admit, though, if you hadn’t added actual pics of Henry creating them, I would have thought they were too difficult to embark upon! Thanks for showing me the way! I will share!

Hey Katherine – I’m so glad the photos of Henry convinced you that they’re doable! My kids do every activity we share here – I want to make sure they aren’t too difficult to embark upon before sharing — because I feel that way too when I find so many fun ideas!

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